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Stephanie Grisham Gets Eviscerated After Telling Disgusting Lie That Obama Officials Left ‘Mean Notes’ Around the White House

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham faced stiff backlash for claiming that President Barack Obama‘s press staff left nasty notes for the incoming administration of President Donald Trump, which former Obama officials slammed as a “bald-faced” and “outrageous” lie.

Grisham has yet to hold a press briefing since taking over for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but on Tuesday, she managed to make a sort of news anyway. According to CNN’s Abby Phillip, Grisham claimed that Trump’s press staff found nasty notes at their desks that were left by the Obama press shop.

“WH Press Sec Stephanie Grisham claims Obama aides left ‘you will fail” notes in offices for Trump aides: ‘We came into the WH, I’ll tell you something. Every office was filled with Obama books and we had notes left behind that said ‘you will fail,’ ‘you aren’t going to make it,’” Phillip wrote on Twitter.

The claim was met with skepticism even by the reporter herself. “If true, you have to wonder why no one has ever mentioned it before…” Phillip wrote, then said it seemed “unlikely” that no one had kept the notes.

Former Obama officials quickly called Grisham out:

ABC News’ chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl even posted some pictures of offices on the day of transition, which don’t appear to depict anything of the sort.

Some Obama officials, meanwhile, acknowledged that Grisham wasn’t completely making things up — they did indeed leave some things behind, they said, but for a very different purpose.

After the Obama officials criticized Grisham’s claim, she backtracked a little bit, admitting she wasn’t “sure where their offices were, and certainly wasn’t implying every office had that issue.”

One former White House official, Michelle Obama’s press secretary, actually posted the note she left when she left the White House:

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